gradable

English

Etymology

grade +‎ -able

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹeɪdəbəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

Examples (linguistics)
hotter than yesterday slightly out of line she greatly underpaid

gradable (not comparable)

1. Able to form degrees or grades
2. (linguistics, of a word or phrase) Able to occur in varying degrees; able to be inflected or modified to express degrees of meaning.

   Synonym: comparable

   Antonyms: non-gradable, ungradable

   • 2007, James R. Hurford, Brendan Heasley, Michael B. Smith, Semantics: A Coursebook‎^[1]:

     Hot and cold are gradable antonyms.

3. steep, but still able to be climbed by a motor vehicle

Antonyms

• ungradable

Derived terms

• gradability
• gradable antonym
• non-gradable

 

Translations

grammar: able to occur in degrees

• Czech: stupňovatelný
• Finnish: suhteellinen (fi)
• French: graduable (fr) / gradable (fr), comparable (fr)
• German: steigerbar (de), steigerungsfähig, graduierbar, komparierbar
• Hungarian: fokozható (hu)
• Polish: stopniowalny
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

Noun

gradable (plural gradables)

1. (linguistics) A word that can be inflected to specify the degree or grade of something.

Further reading

• “gradable”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “gradable”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “gradable”, in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
• gradable in Ozdic collocation dictionary